Thursday, October 1, 2009

Singapore. What sort of "rule of law" is that!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

On Sept 05, 2009, the Singapore state controlled newspaper (all newspapers are owned and controlled by the state) the Straits Times reported in their article "Law Society acts against Gopalan Nair" which published that they had successfully applied to the Singapore High Court to commission a tribunal to look into professionally disciplining me, which means in effect disbarring me.

As is the basic fundamental requirement is any legal system, they have to give notice of any action against someone, to him. But up till today, the Law Society has not sent me any court documents about anything they have done in this case; which they claim to have done. Except reading the newspaper article, I am in the dark.

So you may want to ask, is this "Singapore style rule of law" where you proceed against a Defendant without even letting him know the charges or the complaint?

Is this not a blatant violation of normal due process, merely writing in the state controlled newspaper that applications have been filed with the High Court to commission a tribunal against me, and the High Court allowing the application but not providing any details of this to me, except merely printing a news article in their newspapers?

I am sure even in Hitler's Germany, the Jew was given notice of the case against him in court. It appears Singapore is worse than that; it certainly looks like rule of law, Singapore style.

Not that I care 2 hoots whether they disbar me in Singapore or not, a country which has banned me from entering without permission; I am writing this to expose the duplicity of a country that claims to have the "rule of law". What law?

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“I am sure even in Hitler's Germany, the Jew was given notice of the case against him in court.“:What do you mean when you write "the Jew"? 6 000 000 Jews were killed in KZ, without Notice or law suit: Just for their racial backgrounds.

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Born Singapore, educated Winstedt School 2 (next to Monks Hill in Newton, Singapore) Raffles Institution, National Service, some travel in Europe, then law studies England, return to Singapore, practiced for 10 years, active Workers Party member, stood elections 1988 and 1991 in Singapore, was harassed and persecuted by Lee Kuan Yew for my political beliefs, left for USA, obtained asylum and admitted California State Bar, practice law ever since in Fremont California near San Francisco. Relinquished Singapore citizenship 2005 because I was not prepared to permit Lee Kuan Yew to unjustly retain my CPF funds if I remained Singapore Citizen. On principle, the only correct thing for me to do was to give it up, for my CPF funds. I am an American Citizen as of 2004.